When You Think You Look Bad

         Doesn't it seem like "when you try and look perfect for something or someone, they are never around or it never happens like you want it too but then when you look bad, that someone is around or that thing happens"? A lot of things can happen when you think you look bad and I have experienced this in a lot of ways. It is not only when you look bad, it is also when you feel at your worst, whether that is being sick or just had a hard day or week. I didn't like it to happen to me when it did but then I got to thinking about it. Maybe it is a good thing things turned out the way they did because then people can see my at my worst once in awhile if they never have before.
         For me, I hate it when the good thing or seeing the person I wanted to see for a long time shows up after a hard week or hard day. I can't think of what to say or focus on that person or thing because I have what happened that day before on my mind. I don't need more thoughts in my head for me to think about later on. I'm the kind of person that replays a lot of things in my mind? Has anyone been there? There is good that can come from having those bad looking moments. It is then that you have to push yourself to do what you want done and then you can see how much strength and courage and whatever else you think you have actually do have.
         We just need days and moments like that. Sometimes God puts those people or things right at that time because we need them to cheer us up and give us hope again and again. I know I have used a lot of those times as reminders of who I really was and what I was really going for and why.  It even could be a message or comment left on a friend's Facebook page saying "I'll pray for you" after they have a hard day or moment. It could be a random text when you feel the time is "right".
           It is like Paul says in the Bible,

"But He said to me, "My Grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in your weakness."-2 Cor. 12:9.

        Just think about those hard times or days or even the times you think you look bad: It is a way for God to be seen through you. God's power is made perfect in our weaknesses (aka times we look bad and feel bad). We are overwhelmed and covered with His Grace because it is sufficient for us. We are worth enough to God that He will cover us with His Grace, even when we look bad and messed up. You know, strangely enough, even in those times where we have no idea what we are doing or why we are doing it. We just know that God has called us to do it.

          Through our weaknesses is the best way for others to see God because once they see that we cannot do it without Him or still happy no matter what kind of day we have been through. Then it gets people thinking, "What do they have that I don't?" Just a little challenging and encouraging way for you think about when you think you look bad or when you are having a bad day.  Like right now, I didn't think of that verse before writing this entry, God just gave it to me while I was writing it. It is a different view then maybe most people have thought about that verse before or maybe not. I don't know but what I do know is it a new way of thinking about that verse for me so I'm sharing it.